20 Days of Handmade: Black Cat Soap Company

I couldn’t do a month of handmade without mentioning my favorite soap maker,  The Black Cat Soap Company based in Portland, Oregon. I was lucky to find this company at the House of Dreams cat shelter’s annual holiday sale in 2013 and have been buying through her website ever since.

This year I visited the Black Cat Soap Company booth at the Mountain View middle school holiday fair and stocked up. I’m currently using the home for the holidays bar and highly recommend it. It has a great fruity scent without being overpowering and gives a great lather.

I also stocked up on two bars of the winter woods soap which I am looking forward to using. It has an evergreen scent that will be perfect for cold winter days and pretending I’m tramping through the woods on the Blue Ridge Parkway with my friend Carol the park ranger. If you are family reading this, there will be some surprise scents coming in your Christmas boxes later this month.

All of the Black Cat soaps are cold process soaps made in small batches, so if you see a bar you want, order fast. They do sell out and with new bars coming through the curing process you never know what will be listed next.